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tdbwkb is a small text-based free-ware tool for managing TurboDB tables. It is currently available for Windows platforms and will be offered for Linux in 9/2000. You can download it at http://www.dataweb.de/turbodb.htm. tdbwkb offers commands for
Running tdbwkb will show the copyright and the tdbwkb prompt where you can enter the different commands. Enter help to show a list of available commands.
Here is a sample tdbwkb session to illustrate the available features. Lines starting with .. are comments explaining the following lines.
dataWeb Turbo Database Workbench Version 1.0 Copyright (c) 2000 dataWeb GmbH, Aicha, Germany Homepage http://www.dataweb.de, Mail info@dataweb.de Type 'help' to get a list of available commands. tdbwkb> help Abbreviations are not allowed. The commands are: altertable Modifies an existing table. bye Ends the tdbwkb session. cd Changes the current directory. debug Toggles debug mode. delindex Deletes an index from a table. deltable Deletes all files of a table. help Prints this list of commands. newindex Creates a new index for a table. newtable Creates a new TurboDB table. pwd Prints current working directory. repair Rebuilds a table and all its indexes. tableinfo Shows the description of a table. Type help <cmd> to get more specific help for a command. tdbwkb> newtable animals S40Name,A'Land,Water,Air'Area,PImage,MDescription,N'Name'RecordId Creating table animals.dat with these columns: 1 S40 Name 2 A Area, Values = Land,Water,Air 3 P Image 4 M Description 5 N RecordId tdbwkb> tableinfo animals Retrieving structure of table animals.dat... Table columns: 1 S40 Name 2 A Area, Values = Land,Water,Air 3 P Image 4 M Description 5 N RecordId Indexes: animals.inr RecordId:4 animals.id Name:40 tdbwkb> altertable animals n2=S40Family Restructuring table animals.dat to these columns: 1 S40 Name 2 S40 Family 3 A Area, Values = Land,Water,Air 4 P Image 5 M Description 6 N RecordId tdbwkb> newindex animals byfamily Family,Name tdbwkb> tableinfo animals Retrieving structure of table animals.dat... Table columns: 1 S40 Name 2 S40 Family 3 A Area, Values = Land,Water,Air 4 P Image 5 M Description 6 N RecordId Indexes: animals.inr RecordId:4 animals.id Name:40 byfamily.ind Family:40, Name:40
Another text-based free-ware tool that reads and writes data from and to TurboDB tables. Formats supported by tdbdex are Text, dBase, TurboDB, XML and ODBC (Windows only). You can download it at http://www.dataweb.de/download/tdbcomponents.html. The Linux version will be available in 9/2000.
dataWeb Builder is a fully-featured RAD tool for Web applications. It integrates a visual template designer for dynamic Web pages, a project manager, a scripting language and TurboDB for database access. dWB creates applications for the dataWeb application server which can be run on almost every Windows Web server without any special configuration (ISAPI). The features are:
More information on dataWeb Builder can be found at http://www.dataweb.de/datawebbuildere.htm.
This is our tool for creating Windows client applications for Turbo Database. Using Visual Data Publisher you create forms and reports for interactive applications and printing. Visual Data Publisher enables you to create customized executables with your own name, splash screen, menus and toolbars in a couple of hours. For users of dataWeb Builder Visual Data Publisher is the tool of choice for offline data management and reporting. Users of TurboDB Components can manage their TurboDB database very quickly, enter or modify data and print all kind of reports.
More information on Visual Data Publisher can be found at http://www.dataweb.de/vdp.htm.
Last updated on 6/2/2000. Copyright (c) 2000 by dataWeb GmbH, Aicha, Germany. Turbo Database and TurboDB Components are products by dataWeb - the manufacturers of RAD tools for the Web. Please send your hints, questions and comments to Peter Pohmann.